Scientias exercises

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A window cleaner carries a uniform 60-lb ladder 15 ft long, at one end of which a bucket of water weighing 40 lb is hung. At what point must he support the ladder to carry it horizontally? Where is the center of gravity of his load?

(This problem is taken from chapter 4 of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. )

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Hi scientia

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Scientias exercises

Hi scientia

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Scientias exercises

Re: Scientias exercises

Hi scientia

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.